Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 14⧸2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem opens to a lot of celebration

00:00:04.620 and a lot of unrest. Another terror attack in Paris and ISIS is claiming responsibility.

00:00:11.560 Former Secretary of State John Kerry is still working overtime on behalf of the brutal Iranian 1.00

00:00:17.080 regime against the United States, and the NYPD continues its downward spiral into the political

00:00:24.560 correctness abyss. The U.S. Embassy finally opens in Jerusalem. There's a lot of celebration,

00:00:36.380 also a lot of violence on the part of Arab Muslims. Now, I could not be happier about this embassy 1.00

00:00:42.660 opening. I think that our renewed alliance with Israel was incredibly long overdue. In fact, I find

00:00:50.520 what Obama did to Israel, absolutely disgraceful. He did something very similar to another great

00:00:55.980 ally in Europe, Poland. I'm going to do a series of segments down the road on the Polish-U.S.

00:01:02.500 alliance, how strong it was going back to the first Gulf War, how Obama went out of his way to destroy

00:01:07.920 that, and what it looks like today. It is a fascinating, fascinating story. I'm putting all

00:01:13.480 the pieces together for you. I've actually got some Polish special operations guys that I'm talking to

00:01:19.420 about this, who are currently in their military working for their equivalent of the Joint Chiefs

00:01:23.340 of Staff. They have been great with helping put this picture together for me, and when I'm ready,

00:01:30.360 I want to bring you these exposés. Most people don't realize what a critical ally Poland is. You're

00:01:36.500 going to find it incredibly fascinating, and how strong their economy is. Quick side note before we

00:01:40.420 continue on Israel. One of the former Communist Party headquarters buildings in Warsaw is now a

00:01:46.580 Ferrari dealership. Is that not the most amazing story of capitalism and destruction of communism?

00:01:52.140 Back to Israel. Much like Poland, and even arguably long before Poland, Israel has been a tremendous 0.68

00:01:58.480 ally of the United States, and they've been a necessary partner in the region. Now look, like we do with

00:02:04.940 every nation, we have our ups and downs with Israel, but we should treat Israel more like a brother or 0.59

00:02:11.920 sister. You have your internal fights, but if anybody from the outside dares say a negative word

00:02:16.400 to them, even when you're in your most brutal fight, you'll punch them in the face and make sure

00:02:20.880 they never do it again. Well, Obama didn't treat Israel that way. Obama treated Israel like the enemy

00:02:25.780 and treated Iran like the little brother or the little sister. Obama treated, you know, ISIS in many

00:02:33.980 respects like the little brother or the little sister. He didn't seem to have a desire to crush ISIS

00:02:38.200 because Trump did it in nine months. And Obama went out of his way to alienate Israel. Obama went

00:02:44.400 out of his way to criticize guys like Netanyahu, hardliners in Israel against Islamic terror. Obama

00:02:50.600 and every player in his disastrous administration, I mean, Obama had the F minus minus minus minus minus

00:02:57.340 foreign policy team. When you think about Hillary Benghazi Clinton, John Doofus Kerry, Susan, I'm going to

00:03:06.060 unmask you for no reason whatsoever. Rice, Samantha, my husband is Cass Sunstein and we hate Americans 0.97

00:03:11.360 power. Then I pretty much lie for a living and can't get out of my own, can't get out of my own

00:03:16.640 way with the GPS roads. The list goes on and on and on. Now, it's not even getting into Obama's

00:03:20.940 Department of Justice that gave them legal cover to do all of this, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. 0.86

00:03:26.020 But, you know, snark aside, Obama's foreign policy team, the Kerry's, the Rhodes, the Rice's, the

00:03:34.220 Clintons, the power, Smith Power, UN ambassador, all of the people on Obama's foreign policy team

00:03:42.480 really had zero interest in a strong U.S., let alone a strong Israel. I truly feel that people like

00:03:48.700 Valerie Jarrett, people like John Kerry, would have preferred to have seen Israel destroyed.

00:03:54.640 They would have preferred a one-state solution with the Palestinians taking over Israel and the 0.97

00:04:01.340 Israelis being scattered and displaced around the world. I firmly, firmly in my heart of hearts and 0.96

00:04:07.340 in my gut believe that. They were all for a one-state solution, that state being Palestine with Israel 0.94

00:04:14.200 being eradicated and erased from the history books. That, I believe, was the desire of many in the Obama

00:04:21.420 administration, hence their emboldening Iran, because there's really no other reason why you 0.89

00:04:24.840 would do that. But, they lost. Thank God Hillary Clinton's not in the White House. So, I've got a lot

00:04:31.640 of friends that are currently in Israel for the opening of the embassy. They got there last week,

00:04:36.920 two of them with the U.S. delegation. Now, they asked me not to share photos. They had been texting

00:04:42.580 me photos last night and this morning. They asked me not to share them because they were given

00:04:46.060 seating in a certain area and they were asked not to share photos yet. I don't know why. Many of

00:04:52.580 these photos are in the mainstream media, but maybe it's because the media pool wanted to be the first

00:04:57.520 ones to get their photos out. Maybe the U.S. delegation didn't want their people putting out

00:05:02.140 photos. I don't know why. But, I'm going to honor that request. But, I will tell you, they said,

00:05:05.480 you could say what we saw. And, here's the interesting part. Now, you're seeing in the media the

00:05:10.120 celebrations and the Israelis in the street with Israeli flags and you're seeing some American

00:05:14.840 flags. What you're not seeing in the mainstream media are the Trump signs. The signs with Trump

00:05:22.560 and Netanyahu on them. What you're not seeing in the mainstream media, and I really wish I could share

00:05:27.460 this one photo with you, is a bus. A bus, like a, you know, a tour bus that a band would use.

00:05:32.900 And, it's wrapped. It's got one of those promotional wraps on it. And, the wrap says,

00:05:36.480 thank you, President Trump. And, Israelis are standing in front of the bus alongside Americans

00:05:41.260 and people from around the world who came to see the embassy opening, cheering and patting the bus

00:05:45.640 and giving thumbs ups, like the Trump thumbs up, next to the bus. But, the New York Times runs a

00:05:52.780 story. Now, you're not going to see that in the New York Times, right? So, here is the New York Times

00:05:57.140 headline. Israel feels pride, but senses peril as U.S. moves embassy.

00:06:07.140 So, as I was prepping for the show this morning, this is from yesterday, from the Sunday Times.

00:06:11.900 As I was prepping for the show this morning, I sent this over to the friends who are in Israel,

00:06:16.520 obviously, later there. And, they just sent me back, literally, the two that I know

00:06:20.740 who were there. And, then, they had sent me back responses from their Israeli friends and

00:06:25.620 the people in the Israeli government, the government they were sitting with.

00:06:29.000 When I sent this, it was literally a barrage of LOL and laughing emojis. No one in Israel 1.00

00:06:36.640 feels peril. In fact, people in Israel feel safer. They feel much safer that their big 0.99

00:06:42.760 brother, the United States, has their back now in a rock solid way. They said to me that

00:06:48.560 the celebrations are genuine. It's not, it's more a celebration for Israel on the whole, because 0.77

00:06:54.540 while they're ecstatic that the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem, they also feel, okay,

00:07:01.320 now we're not at risk of troops coming across our border. Now, what do I mean by that? Well,

00:07:08.780 I had Scott Ulinger on the show last week. You've seen Scott on the show. He's a congressional

00:07:11.820 candidate. He's a former CIA station chief. Scott recruited Iranian spies for the CIA. He also

00:07:18.700 worked against Iranian assets while in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East. And, Scott said

00:07:24.720 something on the show that I found very, very interesting. He said that Arab Muslims have

00:07:30.060 this view of Israelis, this impression. They see the Israelis, most notably the IDF, the Israeli

00:07:37.400 Defense Force, and the Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Service, as superhuman. That was

00:07:42.460 the word Scott used. Superhuman. Like, they can pull off operations other people can't.

00:07:47.360 They can, you know, assassinate you in your sleep if you're in a hotel in Singapore and get in and

00:07:52.140 out of that hotel without a trace they were ever there. And so, I said, well, is that, you know,

00:07:57.460 sort of Mossad CIA folklore because they work closely together? So, I asked these friends of mine over

00:08:02.480 in Israel, meeting with some people in the Mossad and the IDF and diplomatic corps. And then I asked

00:08:07.900 some guys I know that had been deployed to these various regions, both as law enforcement, trainers,

00:08:13.700 military, special operations, and intelligence guys. And to a person, they all said, oh, that's true.

00:08:20.960 Not casually. Oh, no, that's true. The Arabs are terrified of the Israelis. But what the Arabs knew

00:08:26.040 they had, what the Muslims knew they had was mass and movement. And if you've ever studied military

00:08:30.700 history, those are two foundational doctrines of military history, of war, of strategy, of tactics.

00:08:37.060 It doesn't matter how technologically advanced your enemy is. It doesn't matter how surgical they are.

00:08:42.380 If you have a critical mass of bodies, magnitudes greater than they do,

00:08:48.560 eventually you're going to be able to overpower them. It's pretty much the same strategy the Russians 0.99

00:08:53.540 used against the much better equipped, more well-trained, wealthier German army in World War II.

00:08:59.580 So the Russians, and you've seen these movies like Enemy at the Gates, and if you've read

00:09:03.360 historical accounts, the Russians would just send bodies in, even though they didn't have guns,

00:09:08.680 many of them. And they would say, if the guy in front of you is killed and he has a gun,

00:09:11.860 pick it up, keep fighting. If you're killed, the guy behind you, pick up your gun. Because the one

00:09:15.400 thing the Russians did have were bodies. They had bodies to throw at the Germans. And even if they 0.90

00:09:21.240 lost 80% of them, well, if in that process, 95% of the Germans were killed, so be it. That's how 0.89

00:09:28.440 you win. And that's what the Russians did. And that was always a threat to Israel, because we know 0.95

00:09:32.360 there are about 1.7 billion Muslims in the world. Well, 1.7 billion Muslims, let's be uber conservative. 0.99

00:09:41.000 Let's be insanely conservative and say only 1% would ever radicalize and weaponize.

00:09:46.400 Let's even be more conservative. Let's say 1.5% would radicalize and weaponize. That's 8.5 million.

00:09:53.740 But I'm going to be even more conservative, to make a point. Let's say only 1.25% would ever

00:09:58.740 radicalize and weaponize. We know the number is much higher. Well, that's 4.25 million, right?

00:10:05.880 4.5 million or so. 4.5 million, the United States military, all branches, as it stands today,

00:10:13.560 is about 2.2 million. So if only a quarter percent of the world's Muslims are radicalized

00:10:21.100 and willing to weaponize, they still outnumber our United States standing military by two. They're

00:10:27.600 still two times larger than we are. A fact that you don't hear much about, a number you never see

00:10:33.840 reported, and something that Israel and the United States and coalition partners in the region like

00:10:38.980 Jordan are very, very cognizant of. Now, when you take the U.S. military and the Israeli Defense 0.56

00:10:44.860 Force and the Jordanians and other allies in NATO and nations like Poland that has been a staunch ally

00:10:51.920 of the United States and Britain and Australia and France, well, you level that playing field,

00:10:56.700 and that's what Israel now has. And so there's this sense of celebration, this sense of renewed hope

00:11:03.880 that Israel is now on neutral territory or even offense and no longer solely on defense,

00:11:09.820 not knowing if the United States is going to come in and help them. Because under Obama,

00:11:13.560 I truly believe we wouldn't have. And the Arab Muslim world is on notice as well. And that's 1.00

00:11:20.660 an important thing because Jews and Arabs are clashing on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem there.

00:11:26.320 The Arabs are livid that the U.S. moved its embassy there. They're livid that the Jews and Israel 1.00

00:11:31.280 are celebrating. But the celebrations really tell a different nuanced story, which I think is why

00:11:39.240 the Muslims are going crazy. See, there's always been this simpatico, this very similar cultural 1.00

00:11:47.620 ease between Israelis and Americans. And maybe it's just because I grew up in New York City, 0.72

00:11:54.680 had a lot of Jewish friends, and I now live in South Florida, large Jewish population.

00:11:57.760 But I always found it very easy to relate to Israelis. You know, I'm an Italian guy from Queens

00:12:04.940 and Jewish and Italian groups being immigrants that came to the U.S. around the same time. And

00:12:09.360 a lot of Israelis I knew in New York whose families had been there since the turn of the century,

00:12:14.060 Jewish families, they had, you know, had family in Israel as well. And so maybe it was cultural,

00:12:19.720 but it's very easy for an American, especially an American who grew up in a big city and an Israeli

00:12:25.120 to relate, find similar, you know, things funny, similar sense of humor, cultural similarities.

00:12:31.660 And I've always found that I related to people from Israel on a one-to-one level, you know,

00:12:37.620 as well as if not better than friends I have from Western Europe, from England. I would even argue

00:12:43.140 that in many respects, being a New Yorker, I can relate to somebody from Tel Aviv better than I can

00:12:48.780 someone from London. And so there's always been that cultural similarity between the U.S. and Israel.

00:12:55.480 And now when you combine that with the clear friendship of Netanyahu and Trump, and they're

00:13:01.860 very similar guys. Now, quick digression, about 10, 11 years ago, I get on the Amtrak Acela train.

00:13:08.520 If you don't know what that is, it's the faster train, gets you in about 45 minutes faster.

00:13:13.100 And it runs on a corridor between Washington, D.C. and New York City, or New York City and Boston.

00:13:17.660 And I was in the first-class car in Acela because it's actually a pretty nice way to travel.

00:13:22.680 You don't want to deal with headaches at an airport. And the police came in and swept the

00:13:26.820 car and they looked in my bag and I'm thinking, what the hell's going on? And Netanyahu comes on.

00:13:32.080 And at the time he was out of power. It was between his stints as prime minister.

00:13:35.780 And when I'm chatting with him on about a three-hour trip, and you know, over the course of the trip,

00:13:39.180 a little conversation here, a little there, about an hour all in, a good guy, a brilliant,

00:13:44.240 brilliant man, tough as nails, but an easy guy to talk to. And if you didn't know he was the

00:13:51.360 former prime minister of Israel, you would have thought he was a guy from Brooklyn running a

00:13:54.320 business. So there's that, the stylistic similarities between Netanyahu and Trump are so great.

00:14:03.840 They're so similar. And I think that leads to this. And that only means good things for global

00:14:09.160 security. It only means good things for world stability. And so I'm very, very encouraged.

00:14:16.520 And with Jews and Arabs clashing on the Temple Mount, we need to send a message to the Arab world 1.00

00:14:23.040 that you might have these little skirmishes, but your days of terror in Israel are rapidly coming to

00:14:30.540 an end. Now, the IDF thwarted a terror attack. They thwarted an attempted terror attack on the Gaza

00:14:36.940 border, and they attacked the Hamas outpost. Now, Hamas is terribly dangerous, as is Hezbollah. 0.73

00:14:42.840 We know that Hezbollah is really an Iranian puppet. Hezbollah is now gaining a foothold 0.98

00:14:48.440 in the Lebanese government. They were always running Lebanon de facto via proxies, but now

00:14:53.800 they're being elected. Now they're a legitimate governmental group. Very, very dangerous for Israel 0.92

00:15:00.220 with Hezbollah running Lebanon. The situation in Syria, we've discussed it ad nauseum. But this is from

00:15:06.220 the Jerusalem Post. Let me read you a part of this. IDF forces thwarted an attempted terror attack on

00:15:11.460 Monday, which happened today, when three armed Palestinians laid an explosive device near Rafa

00:15:16.920 on the Gaza-Israel border. Soldiers fired and killed three perpetrators of the attempted attack,

00:15:22.900 the IDF said, which took place at one of the most violent scenes of clashes between Palestinian

00:15:27.980 protesters and IDF troops. In addition, an IDF plane targeted a Hamas outpost in the Jabalaya region

00:15:34.340 of the Gaza Strip after identifying it as the source of gunfire at IDF troops. No IDF troops were

00:15:41.400 injured. Now, I couldn't be happier that Israel is taking things very seriously. They are attacking 1.00

00:15:48.900 again, and they should be. They should be knocking out these terrorists. They should be knocking them 0.97

00:15:55.120 out, and the United States should be doing what we're doing, explaining to them that they've got a

00:16:01.200 rock-solid partner in all. Now, while this is all going on, Ayman al-Zwahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda,

00:16:10.540 is calling for jihad against the United States. This all happened yesterday on the eve of the

00:16:15.900 opening of the embassy in Jerusalem. In a five-minute video, this is great, entitled,

00:16:23.780 Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is also a land of Muslims. Al-Zwahiri, you know, he took over after bin Laden was

00:16:33.100 killed back in 2011. He referred to the Palestinian Authority as the sellers of Palestine while urging

00:16:39.940 followers to take up arms. He, he, this is amazing. So here's what he said about Trump. The Trump quote

00:16:47.920 was clear and explicit, and he revealed the true face of the modern crusade, where standing down

00:16:53.840 in appeasement does not work with them, but only resistance through the call and jihad. So

00:16:58.780 basically, Al-Zwahiri is doing what the liberals tell us he's not doing. He's saying that the U.S.

00:17:07.560 is on a, you know how the liberals always say, we're not at war with Islam, we're at war with

00:17:11.880 terrorism. We're not at war with Islam, we're at war with terrorism. No, it's not Islam. Well, 0.99

00:17:16.620 Al-Zwahiri is saying liberals, no, you morons. I'm at war with you, Judeo-Christianity. I see your 1.00

00:17:22.820 mere existence as the new crusade. And I'm calling on Muslims around the world to engage in jihad, 1.00

00:17:30.300 to take up arms against you and kill you. So Al-Zwahiri is at war with Judaism and Christianity, 1.00

00:17:36.160 while liberals around the world are not at war with Islam. And there you have it. And there you

00:17:42.180 have it. Al-Zwahiri added that bin Laden declared the U.S., quote, the first enemy of the Muslims

00:17:48.660 and swore that it will not dream of security until it is lived in reality in Palestine.

00:17:54.840 Remember what I told you about my, I believe the Obama administration's true desire was to see

00:17:59.980 Israel eradicated? I believe John Kerry and Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Barack Obama, I have

00:18:05.320 Jared, all did believe in a one state solution, but that one state solution was Palestine with 0.99

00:18:09.800 Israel eradicated, Israelis fragmented, marginalized, and scattered around the world. And the word 0.97

00:18:15.340 Israel removed from history books? Well, Al-Zwahiri is basically saying I was right. He said that it 1.00

00:18:22.080 will not dream of security until it is lived in reality in Palestine and until all the armies of 1.00

00:18:26.800 disbelief, remember disbelief, you're not Muslim, leave the land of Muhammad, though they are at war 0.79

00:18:32.840 with Judaism and Christianity. Al-Zwahiri also argued that Islamic countries had failed to act

00:18:38.340 in Muslims' interests by entering into the United Nations. Now, Iran daunch Muslims, radical Muslims, 1.00

00:18:46.900 Rani, Khamenei, but morons like John Kerry, we're going to talk a little bit later in the show about 1.00

00:18:51.680 his recent Logan Act violations, morons like John Kerry believe the Iranians love him. They don't believe 1.00

00:18:58.180 that he's being, he doesn't believe he's being lied to, that as an infidel, he's being lied to.

00:19:02.840 This is, this is just shocking to me that Al-Zwahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda, can sit there and call for

00:19:14.680 death to Christians and Jews, and we still have liberals that are sitting here saying, well, that's 1.00

00:19:19.320 not true. It really doesn't happen. Palestinians are attacking Israel daily now. Muslims are attacking Jews 0.99

00:19:26.380 on the Temple Mount, and the global call for jihad is out because we moved our embassy in Jerusalem to 0.93

00:19:32.400 Jerusalem, but the left is still saying, well, but it's not Islam. It's not Islam. Leave Islam. It's not 0.80

00:19:38.140 Islam. It's a few radical actors on the heels of another ISIS lone wolf carrying out a knife attack 0.86

00:19:44.500 in Paris. We're going to be talking about that on the show today as well. But in summation, I just,

00:19:50.100 I couldn't be happier that the embassy is opening in Jerusalem. Could not be happier, could not be

00:19:56.220 happier about this renewed alliance with Israel. We need to start treating our friends like our 0.87

00:20:02.000 friends and our enemies like our enemies. Donald Trump is off to a tremendous, tremendous start,

00:20:08.220 and I hope this is the foundation of a rock-solid relationship between the U.S. and Israel for

00:20:15.540 century coming. Another terror attack in Paris, and ISIS is claiming responsibility. This time,

00:20:33.980 harried out by a 20-year-old named Hamzat Asimov. Now, this guy was on two terror watch lists in France

00:20:43.060 since 2016. And a source in French law enforcement said, quote, it was his relatives who alerted the

00:20:50.560 security services as opposed to his behavior, actions, or ideas. Interesting. 20 years old. He

00:20:58.980 was a student from, he went to a high school called Strasbourg High School. His classmates described him

00:21:05.500 as religious and very discreet. He liked video games and sports. He grew up in eastern French and

00:21:13.000 an eastern French town. And that town is predominantly Chechen Muslim from Russia. Very, very dangerous. 1.00

00:21:21.820 One former classmate said, quote,

00:21:25.000 Khazmat was quite calm. He kept to himself. He didn't have a problem. He did Ramadan. He paid attention

00:21:29.640 to girls. Quote, he had a distinctive manner and was in contact with Syria where he wanted to go

00:21:34.600 The different person said this. But after the exams, he left all that. He wanted to make a living.

00:21:41.240 Other people said he was a normal guy. He was Muslim, but he didn't show it. So apparently his 0.99

00:21:46.860 radicalization happened very, very recently. Now, this attack happened on Saturday evening around 9 p.m.

00:21:52.520 Paris local time, about 3 p.m. East Coast time in the U.S. and the second around this month,

00:21:59.640 which was very touristy. And I had a friend who was a federal agent and lived in Paris about five

00:22:05.120 years. He was the legal attache at our embassy for his particular federal agency. And I asked him

00:22:09.260 what that area would be like at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night. It would be packed. It would be like the

00:22:13.940 downtown of any other city, the tourist area of any other city on a Saturday night. He said,

00:22:18.220 you're going to carry out an edged weapon attack as a means of terror. That's one of the places you

00:22:23.160 would do it in Paris. Now, so he stabbed five, killing one. He attacked four others. He was,

00:22:32.780 the officers first tried, the French officers first tried stun guns. They didn't work, so they shot him.

00:22:39.420 And the statement from ISIS said, quote, the person who executed the stabbing in Paris is soldier of

00:22:46.820 the Islamic State. They also said he acted in response to calls to an attack anti-ISIS coalition

00:22:53.620 countries. There's also a video, apparently, of this guy pledging allegiance to ISIS. And so a video

00:23:05.040 emerged online on Sunday in which he pledged loyalty to Abubakar al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

00:23:10.940 This is very, very troubling because we talk about this all the time. You don't need to join ISIS.

00:23:17.660 You don't need to go somewhere and sign up. Okay, I'm ISIS. Here's my ISIS application. You know,

00:23:22.720 like it's Banana Republic. You know, call me back. There's the gap. It's anthropology. I'm going to,

00:23:28.340 if you call, you know, if the ISIS manager wants to hire me, no. You pretty much just say,

00:23:32.580 I'm a radical Muslim lunatic. I want to be ISIS. I'm ISIS. And you do your application and give it to 1.00

00:23:38.340 yourself. You're the manager. You call yourself and you're part of ISIS. 0.97

00:23:40.940 Now, I don't want to downplay the brutal threat these people are because somebody's dead.

00:23:45.020 Somebody did nothing more than want to enjoy Paris in a tourist area on a Saturday night.

00:23:50.020 Something we all do on the weekends. We go out to busy areas and we have drinks and we have food

00:23:53.700 and we hang out with friends and family and we enjoy it. We don't expect to be killed,

00:23:57.900 which is why I recommend here in the States where you can carry a firearm, whole different topic.

00:24:02.540 Things might have gone differently had some private person been armed in pretty much fully

00:24:07.020 disarmed Paris, France. Now, ISIS, and I've always told you this, has always done a tremendous job.

00:24:18.120 Now, they're pretty much decimated. They've lost their territory. They're a fraction of their former

00:24:21.540 organizational self. But they have always been gifted at online recruiting, at messaging. And we're

00:24:30.500 going to see these fighters. And I don't like calling them lone wolves. You're not a lone wolf

00:24:35.700 when your allegiance is to a larger organization. You're simply a soldier acting alone. You're one

00:24:43.040 soldier involved in that attack. But you're not a lone wolf. When I was a New York City cop and I was

00:24:49.460 standing on a footpost by myself or I was riding around, we rode two partners, two cops to a car.

00:24:56.820 But if you would do overtime details, traffic speeding, red lights, you would ride alone.

00:25:02.220 I wasn't a lone wolf police officer. I was still a member of the New York City Police Department,

00:25:08.200 just working alone on that particular assignment on that particular day. Tomorrow, I might be in a van

00:25:15.260 with five other cops. Tomorrow, I might be deployed to a disorder control scene in one of seven vans with

00:25:23.360 50 other cops. Or I might be in a car with one other cop. You never knew. But I was part of a

00:25:28.660 greater organization. And that's how we have to start looking at these ISIS actors. We have to start

00:25:34.220 looking at them as part of a greater organization who on that particular day, or any terror actor that

00:25:39.820 we call a lone wolf, who on that particular day just was working by themselves because it was most

00:25:45.760 conducive to that particular mission. We have to stop with this lone wolf narrative that the liberals

00:25:51.040 want to throw out there to downplay the greater threat. It serves no purpose other than political

00:25:57.220 correctness. And it scares me when law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies delve into political

00:26:02.100 correctness. The NYPD is doing that. We're going to be talking about that a little bit later in the

00:26:06.660 show. Now, I'm encouraged, like I said, because Macron identified this as terror pretty quickly.

00:26:13.640 Now, Macron is still French, but he's encouragingly proactive French. And so, look,

00:26:19.960 the French police did an outstanding job. I mean, they gunned this guy down. They shouldn't have

00:26:23.200 used stun guns at first. They should have whacked him off the bat. But they eventually took him out, 0.98

00:26:27.840 avoiding further injury. Took place near the Paris Opera on Saturday night, and he killed a 29-year-old.

00:26:35.000 So the guy that was killed, just enjoying his night out, was 29 years old, didn't even reach his 30th

00:26:39.560 birth. And two of the other four injured were injured very, very seriously. The, took place,

00:26:47.040 like I said, near the Paris Opera in an area with many bars and restaurants, many theaters.

00:26:52.160 And somebody, a guy named Graveau, who is the, let's see who this guy is, government spokesman,

00:27:00.080 Benjamin Graveau, said, quote, it is, once again, a way of life, our way of life, which has come under

00:27:06.660 a cowardly attack. Now, this guy was on a state security watch list that in France is known as the,

00:27:14.700 quote, unquote, S-file. And that, of course, drew what this article says. Angry opposition is an

00:27:20.260 associated press article by way of Bakersfield.com, Bakersfield, California news outlet. It drew angry

00:27:28.100 opposition from the right and far-right opposition. Well, angry reaction from the right and far-right

00:27:33.740 opposition. Why wouldn't it? Why wouldn't it? Now, the leader of France's biggest opposition party

00:27:39.680 renewed his call on Macron to detain, quote, the most dangerous of individuals on the watch list

00:27:46.760 and expel all foreigners listed on it. This guy, Laurent Guacquiez of the Conservatives,

00:27:53.980 Les Republicans, Les Republicains. I'm guessing that's the French version of Conservative Republicans.

00:27:59.560 I don't speak French, but I don't think you need to for this one. He said, quote, there is no longer

00:28:03.220 room, Mr. President, for this blind inaction, which has lasted too long. And National Front Leader,

00:28:08.560 Marine Le Pen, who, of course, ran for a national office in France, said, quote, what use can this

00:28:14.140 S-file be if we don't use it? Point Marine to ensure that these time bombs cannot do any harm on

00:28:21.120 French soil. But Graveau, the government spokesman, said, quote, unfortunately, there is no way of

00:28:26.620 stopping this sort of incident from happening. And said, also, Graveau said, quote, if you lock them up,

00:28:32.860 if you lock them up, then again, you won't be able to tease out their networks and dismantle

00:28:37.660 operations that could take place tomorrow, end quote. And that was Graveau. Now, let's discuss

00:28:42.640 that. But it's very, very interesting. I don't entirely disagree with him. You do, from an

00:28:47.420 intelligence gathering perspective, need to leave known bad actors in play. And as much as I'd love

00:28:55.200 to knee-jerk react on this one, all the French, and he was on watch lists, and this guy was on watch

00:29:01.020 lists, and they should have kicked him out of the country. They should have, they should have,

00:29:04.000 you know, shot him dead in the street. Might be out of character for me, you might find this 0.93

00:29:08.620 counterintuitive. But when I analyze this through the law enforcement, the intelligence lens,

00:29:12.760 there is a very, very strong case who have left this guy in play. He was on the watch list for known

00:29:21.040 association, but gave no hint of weaponization. Gave no hint that he was predisposed to commit murder.

00:29:31.620 He was associating with and dealing with the bad actors. He was exactly the kind of guy you might

00:29:37.800 leave in play because the risk of him doing harm to someone was lower than the intelligence value you

00:29:44.360 might glean by following him, prevailing him, monitoring him, wiring up his home, wiring up his

00:29:51.980 place of work, wiring up his mosque. So I can't, on this one, really fault French authorities for

00:29:59.360 leaving this guy in play. I can't. There's something to be said for that from an intelligence

00:30:06.200 gathering perspective. Now, when we go through, I was reading you some of the comments here.

00:30:12.140 Why am I saying, you know, why am I saying all that? Why am I, you know, saying, not saying hang

00:30:16.500 them high and get rid of them and deport them? Well, when I look at this objectively, when I take my anger 0.99

00:30:23.060 at dead innocence out of it, I objectively look at this and I look at what French law enforcement was

00:30:28.520 probably looking at. You can just comment because I'm sure they had interviewed and the intelligence

00:30:32.560 services had interviewed these same people. Let's go through what we talked about again.

00:30:38.320 I'm trying to put a threat assessment together on a bad guy because I have to make a decision. Do I

00:30:43.820 leave him in play and see who he's hanging out with? See if any of these ISIS operators that he's

00:30:48.080 dealing with online or coming to Paris or is he such a threat to the public that I got to get him

00:30:53.700 off the street immediately? A lot of value in leaving him in play, but I don't want to get

00:30:57.140 anybody killed. I've got to make a decision here. It's never an easy one. Very discreet student who

00:31:03.620 likes video games and sports. Quiet, calm, kept to himself. Yeah, he did Ramadan, but he also paid 0.96

00:31:10.000 attention to girls. Now I'm drawing a picture of somebody who's religious, curious, but still

00:31:17.320 has one toe in the secular pond. Had a distinctive manner of was in contact with Syria, but after

00:31:24.680 exams, he left all that and wanted to make a living. So he was young and curious. He

00:31:30.340 dabbled in potentially going over to Syria to fight with ISIS, but then bills and life set in and he went

00:31:38.420 out to get a job. Well, now the case is growing stronger to leave this guy in play. No, he would have

00:31:44.700 acted when he was younger, when he, he's, he's now moving away from radicalism slightly, not toward

00:31:50.220 it. Normal student, not excellent, but not bad either. Middle of the pack. He wasn't a loner. He

00:31:57.860 wasn't ostracized. He wasn't bullied. He wasn't marginalized. All of those things that might trigger

00:32:03.320 him to act radically. By the same token, he wasn't particularly wealthy, looking for grandiose attention.

00:32:08.600 He wasn't traveling in a social circle, maybe with wealthy Saudis who funded terror and he thought it 1.00

00:32:14.520 was glamorous. The middle of the pack guy. So family fled the violence in Chechnya.

00:32:22.340 There was nothing else, not the family. Another quote, the quote from a, from a neighbor, there was

00:32:28.760 nothing ostentatious in terms of religion. He was a young guy who favored tracksuit and was a student.

00:32:34.380 Family didn't receive visitors. Uh, the, he wasn't a thug. He was reserved. They had been living here for

00:32:40.220 a little over a year. Father worked in construction. The mother worked for an association that helps the

00:32:45.940 homeless. So you, when you look at that as an investigator, when you work alongside the field

00:32:54.580 people and the intelligence analysts, and you're trying to draw up in the psychologist, you're trying

00:32:59.020 to draw a composite on, do I leave this guy in play or do I grab him up? This guy appeared to be pretty

00:33:07.500 low risk. He was on the watch list because of communication. He appeared to be pulling back

00:33:12.480 slightly from radicalism. I might've made the same decision myself. Very candidly. I might've made the

00:33:18.720 same fateful and fatal decision myself. Nah, watch this guy a little bit more. Let's leave him in play.

00:33:25.360 Hey, let's see who he meets with. Well, unfortunately he pulled out a four inch, uh,

00:33:30.880 plated knife and started stabbing people. They said he approached calmly, a total contrast with the panic

00:33:37.380 all around him. Another thing were his physical characteristics. He had a beard, but it wasn't very

00:33:42.440 long and he was dressed normally. He didn't fit the stereotype. Someone said that was all a quote of a

00:33:47.460 jihadist. He had a young guy with a beard, a lot of hipsters around the world with beards. He didn't have

00:33:52.140 a long radical beard. He didn't have the shaved head. He wasn't wearing Muslim garb, just dressed

00:33:56.840 like a guy who's 20 years old with a slight beard. I can walk outside of this studio, find you 30 guys

00:34:05.120 like that. And there's a Starbucks down the corner, literally two blocks away from where I'm sitting

00:34:09.740 behind me. Go in there and find 10 guys who fit his description every morning. And so when, when we look

00:34:18.040 at this from the law enforcement intelligence side of the world, we need to say, let's not blame the

00:34:22.280 French here. I don't think they, I don't think they screwed up. In fact, I think they probably did the 1.00

00:34:27.060 right thing leaving this guy in play. I truly, truly do. Unfortunately, it had deadly consequences.

00:34:33.740 So now what I hope French authorities are doing is they're looking at the Chechen population on the

00:34:38.300 whole. Now they're grabbing up all of the people he communicated with. Now they're going to start

00:34:44.240 deporting anyone he's been in touch with, anyone he went to meetings with, anyone at his mosque,

00:34:48.620 anyone else they have wires up on that, or, or any kind of surveillance or confidential informants

00:34:54.580 that he communicated with about jihad. But at the end of the day, I always tell you, these are the

00:34:59.900 attacks that keep you awake at night. When you're in the world that I used to work in low tech, asymmetrical

00:35:05.560 doesn't require chatter, doesn't require planning. Anybody can a knife and walk into a crowd and start

00:35:12.000 stabbing people in the name of anyone. It's impossible to interdict, but you can't deport 0.96

00:35:17.800 all the bad guys. God has to leave some in play to find the networks. And I think that as long as we

00:35:24.200 have terror in this world, unless we start getting very serious about cutting the heads off the snakes, 0.99

00:35:31.980 killing the al-Wahiris of the world, the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's of the world, though we take the gloves off 1.00

00:35:39.920 and stop worrying about political correctness and subjective rules of engagement.

00:35:46.280 So we get as brutal as these people, two of the most brutal people, innocents are unfortunately

00:35:51.440 going to die and be severely injured in these one-off low-tech asymmetrical attacks.

00:35:58.600 Sadly, just the state of the world we live in.

00:36:09.920 Just when you thought you couldn't be any more disgusted at John Kerry, John Kerry steps in and

00:36:17.940 says, hold my little dainty demitasse pup. I mean, John Kerry is probably the most insufferable 0.56

00:36:25.220 former administration official of any administration alive today. He's really, really bad. And that, 0.76

00:36:30.000 and that is a pretty dubious distinction when you consider the Eric Holders of the world,

00:36:36.240 Hillary Clintons of the world. Yeah, John Kerry annoys me more than Hillary Clinton. So he was out there

00:36:41.560 trying to preserve the disastrous Iran deal. And President Trump canceled that deal. Many speculate

00:36:48.340 in part because of what Kerry was doing. Trump was so incensed that Kerry would be out there

00:36:53.720 subverting U.S. foreign policy in support of the Iranians that it led to Trump canceling the deal

00:36:59.060 because it made him really question the motives of the previous administration.

00:37:02.600 Now, the Boston Globe reported that, oh, about a week and a half ago that Kerry was out there

00:37:08.700 doing that. But Kerry didn't stop because just over this weekend, John Kerry was caught secretly

00:37:15.780 meeting with three Iranian diplomats, not diplomats. These are really diplomat terrorists. These are 0.79

00:37:21.980 people who promote the agenda of Rouhani and Khomeini, some of the most brutal people to ever hold

00:37:27.600 power in Iran. John Kerry was caught meeting with them in Paris. As a luck would have it or not have it

00:37:35.360 for the former Secretary of State, the former U.S. Senator, an all-around terrible, pompous guy,

00:37:42.900 a friend of Jason Osborne. Now, Jason Osborne is a former advisor to the Trump campaign 0.88

00:37:49.400 and Ben Carson's campaign. Well, a friend of Jason Osborne, I know Jason, was sitting in a restaurant

00:37:56.060 and started taking photos and texting him to Jason Osborne, who then tweeted the photos. So Jason

00:38:02.700 Osborne's tweet said, excuse me, so John Kerry just left the meeting at L'Avenue in Paris with three

00:38:09.020 Iranians. A friend was sitting next to their table and heard J.K. John Kerry blasting Donald Trump.

00:38:15.620 The Iranians had a five-person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles. Is he far or registered?

00:38:22.100 Now, the tweets went on of Jason Osborne, and he was saying how they were mocking Donald Trump and

00:38:31.920 saying, is he really rich? He had the former Secretary of State sitting with three Iranians, enemies of the 1.00

00:38:36.100 United States, mocking the U.S. president and John Kerry laughing alongside of them. Well, the friend

00:38:42.100 apparently was able to follow these Iranians, I guess. Somebody else got a photo, photos of their

00:38:49.540 faces, full on, walking into the Prince de Gaulle Hotel in Paris. And Osborne tweeted again about,

00:38:58.140 actually, let's see, oh, the next day. So the next day, about 24 hours later, he was able to get

00:39:05.260 photos of the same three men. I guess his friend ran into them again later that day. And the tweet said,

00:39:11.040 just got pictures of the three Iranians who met with John Kerry yesterday, and they're entering the

00:39:14.880 Hotel Prince de Gaulle. Anyone know who they are? Well, people who knew who they were, people who

00:39:20.320 study this, tweeted immediately. And he said, one guy said, the one in the front is certainly Kamal

00:39:27.040 Farazi, Iran regime's foreign minister from 97 to 2005. The one behind the door looks very similar to

00:39:34.260 Abelgassam Delphi, current ambassador to France. He photos for comparison.

00:39:38.160 Please bear in mind, these people aren't diplomats. They're diplomat terrorists. Wow. Wow. So the,

00:39:47.840 the, um, and the person who said they're diplomat terrorists, let's see, he is a news editor and an

00:39:56.060 activist for Free Iran. Uh, he's a, um, Iran policy expert, a guy named M. Hanif Jassiiri.

00:40:04.800 And he is now being very vocal about it. And he's very pro, uh, Trump pulling out of the Iran deal,

00:40:14.320 very anti-Iranian regime. This guy, he seems to know these players and he posted photos,

00:40:19.580 other photos of these three people that Kerry met with. It's clearly two of the men are clearly the

00:40:25.380 people he identified. No doubt about it. Photographs don't lie. Clearly them. And so

00:40:30.240 begs the question, why would John Kerry, after we exited the Iran deal, be sitting with allies of

00:40:38.900 Verwani and Khamenei? What was the true motive of the Iran deal? Now, while all this was going on,

00:40:46.420 one of the things that, uh, failed to make the mainstream media shocking, I know, is that the UN

00:40:52.980 nuclear inspector quit? I'm going to, I'm going to find you that, um, that story right now. I had it

00:41:01.960 up, uh, in the new US, the UN nuclear inspector quit. And let me, let me find you, uh, this story

00:41:10.300 from just over the weekend. Uh, UN's top is from the New York post. UN's top nuke inspector abruptly

00:41:15.080 quits days after U.S. pulls out of Iran deal. Why? Why? The International Atomic Energy Agency

00:41:23.320 didn't give a reason for Taro Valioranta's exit. Now let's think about this. The U.S. pulls out of

00:41:30.140 the Iran deal. The U.S. starts demanding more information on Iran cheating and who might have

00:41:35.380 allowed them to cheat. More information on who the bad actors were. And this guy from the UN

00:41:41.080 abruptly quits. The entire thing, the entire thing is really, really filthy. I mean, I mean,

00:41:49.800 dirtier than dirty. Now let's read the Logan Act again. We did this last week. The Logan Act

00:41:56.960 basically makes it a crime for you to work against the interests of the United States with foreign

00:42:00.540 governments, especially those that are hostile to it. Like Iran. 18 U.S. code 953, private correspondence

00:42:08.880 with foreign governments. Any citizen of the United States, John Kerry, wherever he may be,

00:42:16.160 Harris, who, John Kerry, without authority of the United States, Trump can't stand Kerry,

00:42:22.360 gave him no permission to do anything, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence

00:42:28.560 or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof. Oh, I would say that

00:42:34.580 sitting at a table in Paris with the former Iranian foreign minister and current Iranian ambassador to

00:42:40.500 France, you can't get any more clear cut in terms of statutory violation.

00:42:48.020 In relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States Iran deal, or to defeat the

00:42:53.860 measures of the United States, or to thwart Trump's coming out of the Iran deal, they'll be fined under

00:42:59.580 this title or in prison not more than three years or both. I mean, I've never in the 25 years in

00:43:06.440 alongside or analyzing reporting on law enforcement intelligence issues, I've never seen a more clear

00:43:12.840 cut statutory violation than this. Never. Never. It says this section should not abridge the right of

00:43:20.620 a citizen to apply himself or his agent to any foreign government or agents thereof, or redress of

00:43:25.920 any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

00:43:30.680 Maybe this is saying you can sue foreign governments and sue a foreign government or something they did

00:43:34.080 to you that that doesn't fall under the correspondence section of this and sue them. You just can't

00:43:40.860 collude with them. It damages the United States, which is what John Kerry did. You can't. Well,

00:43:47.380 collude is not a crime. Conspiracy is you can't conspire. You can't conspire with them to subvert the

00:43:55.200 United States, which appears to be exactly what John Kerry did. This is very, very serious that

00:44:00.480 a former secretary of state is out there openly working against the interests of the United States

00:44:05.440 on behalf of Iran. We need a full intelligence community and Department of Justice investigation

00:44:12.060 into this. We really, really do. This is one of the most troubling things I've ever seen,

00:44:18.020 and it begs so many questions. The most important, the most glaring of which is why? Why is John Kerry

00:44:26.780 doing this? Whose interests are served? Is it to cover something up? Is it embarrassment? Is it just

00:44:35.300 disdain for America? Is it disdain for American exceptionalism, the America first agenda? I don't

00:44:41.160 know. But I do know. The question that needs to be answered is why? And if John Kerry is committing

00:44:47.880 crimes, he needs to be prosecuted.

00:45:01.820 The NYPD continues its downward spiral into the abyss of political correctness.

00:45:07.340 This is from Newsmax. Here's the headline. Reinvented NYPD. Reach out to people who don't

00:45:15.060 like you. We have so much to talk about here. Let me read you part of the article. It all stems

00:45:22.820 from an NYPD and NBC News report yesterday on Sunday. In a diametrically opposing reinvention

00:45:30.960 of a policing strategy, the NYPD is moving away from the controversial stop and frisk policy

00:45:37.340 that led to riots and antagonization of the men in blue to what it calls precision policing.

00:45:43.580 Quote, I've asked my cops. Reach out to the people in the community that don't like you.

00:45:49.140 NYPD chief of department Terry Monaghan, old NBC News. Now, they claim the strategy is meant

00:45:54.700 to rebuild trust between law enforcement and citizens after fracturing of an oftentimes hostile

00:46:01.700 band off. And Monaghan said, quote, it's been said many times. It's hard to hate up close.

00:46:07.580 Quote, you may hate just a blue uniform, but when you know that person, you know them as a human,

00:46:11.520 it's different. Yes. But those were never the problems. Those were never the people in the

00:46:16.060 neighborhood we had problems with. Cops always did this. Now, Brooklyn resident,

00:46:21.060 Daniseumatic, said, quote, a lot of people don't do anything wrong and they still get harassed by the

00:46:24.820 cops. I mean, pulled over, stopped and frisked, being patted down, anything the cops would do to stop

00:46:29.380 you. Just you looking at them the wrong way. That's not true. They're going back to the Eric Garner case

00:46:35.520 and they're talking about the murders of police officers Hugh and Ramos, Lou and Ramos,

00:46:40.100 Wenjan Lou, of course, and Rafael Ramos murdered December of 2014. And this is nothing new.

00:46:49.000 It's just really annoying. Look, this is not a reinvention or a diametrical opposition to

00:46:54.720 anything. Stop and frisk is a constitutionally protected policy.

00:47:01.580 Constitutionally protected. It's been Supreme Court doctrine since the 1960s. Okay.

00:47:08.520 The only reason stop and frisk is illegal in New York is that a liberal judge,

00:47:11.780 Scheer and Scheinlin deemed it illegal in light of the Supreme Court deeming it legal

00:47:16.960 in the 1960s. The de Blasio administration never appealed her ruling and Scheinlin, knowing

00:47:24.580 her ruling was going to be struck down on appeal and her herself censured for basically spitting in

00:47:30.000 the Supreme Court's face, resigned. She retired from a lifetime judgeship. She stepped down from the

00:47:36.260 bench. All anyone ever had to do was appeal the decision and stop and frisk would have again been

00:47:40.800 legal in New York. It works. It saves lives. People don't understand what stop and frisk is.

00:47:46.780 It doesn't give you the right to search anybody. It's a simple pat down over the clothing. If a

00:47:51.820 police officer has reason to believe someone is armed to protect themselves and the public.

00:47:55.480 If you find something consistent with the shape of a firearm, you can go into that pocket. If I'm

00:48:01.660 patting down your jacket and I find something consistent with the shape of a gun, I can reach in

00:48:06.360 the pocket and pull out the gun. If I find something consistent with a weapon in any aspect,

00:48:11.680 if I find cylindrical objects in your pocket that I think might be ammunition to a firearm in a place

00:48:16.260 where you're not supposed to have it, I reach in and they're cracked vials, that search would be good.

00:48:21.660 A knife in your pocket if I'm stopping you. But I need a reason to stop you. I need reasonable suspicion.

00:48:28.920 Mere suspicion is it's 3 a.m. You're walking in a deserted industrial area, peering in the windows

00:48:37.840 of warehouses. That's mere suspicion. Something illegal about it, but it does give me the right

00:48:44.460 as the police to start a conversation with you. To try to. You're under no obligation to talk to me.

00:48:50.120 You're under no obligation to talk to me. You can say, officer, I'd rather not talk to you. I'm going

00:48:54.520 to go on my way. I have no constitutional reason to stop you. I didn't get a 911 call. I don't see

00:49:01.140 anything wrong with the building. You're walking down a sidewalk. You're looking in windows.

00:49:05.380 Looks suspicious, but it's legal. Now, if I get a 911 call saying there's a man, he's a male black in a 1.00

00:49:14.800 black leather jacket, blue jeans, white running shoes, he's pulling on the doors and checking the

00:49:20.100 locks of these buildings. The neighbors say the woman in the apartment building across the street

00:49:26.520 says she's never seen him before. She knows the maintenance man. It's not. Excuse me. She sees

00:49:32.160 the maintenance man every night. It's not the maintenance man. Well, I get there. I see the guy

00:49:38.220 lock away. I don't come up with lights and sirens on. Why would I do that? I don't want to scare him

00:49:43.280 off. And I see him trying to pull the grates of the window. Well, now I've got reasonable suspicion.

00:49:48.080 This guy's doing something wrong. So I roll up on the guy and he says to me, Hey, how I talked to

00:49:53.760 him. What are you doing? And he says, Oh, I know how it looks. Here's my business card. I'm the new

00:49:59.320 security company. We always come this time of night to check the grates. We check the locks.

00:50:05.320 Here's my card. Feel free to call the manager of the building. We have a 24 hour number at the

00:50:09.800 management company. We're going to call the management company. Yup. That's our guy. Is this what he looks

00:50:14.000 like? Yup. All right, sir. Have a great night. And that guy's typically going to say to you,

00:50:18.800 thanks for you guys coming so quick. Great to see. But if the guy's got no reason to be there,

00:50:23.760 well, now I'm going to exit my car, right? If the guy says, well, I'm just, I'm going to my

00:50:28.840 mother's house. Where does your mother live? Oh, down the block. What's her address? And he starts

00:50:32.300 stumbling. Well, now I know I've probably got a guy who's trying to burglarize the building

00:50:35.820 and looking for maybe a maintenance man who slipped up or a security guy who slipped up and didn't

00:50:40.400 lock a lock. And so I'm going to now approach this guy. Now, if it's a July night and it's 95 degrees

00:50:49.140 and I'm sweating and I'm in plain clothes and I'm going to polo and jeans and I'm sweating and this

00:50:55.220 guy's wearing a black hoodie and one of the pockets is drooping a little bit. Well, that might be

00:51:00.480 indicative of a weapon. Now that could also be indicative of burglary tools, but if he's got a

00:51:04.880 pointy screwdriver, that to me is a weapon and the Supreme court feels so as well. I can,

00:51:10.380 pat down the outside of his clothing. If I find a gun, if I find a weapon, maybe he goes to jail or

00:51:16.300 maybe he doesn't. It all depends on the situation, but I've now got reasonable suspicion, a detailed

00:51:22.360 description, a 911, and I can pat him down. There are two sides to every story and that's all stop

00:51:29.140 and frisk is. And so when residents from the neighborhood say, well, we don't do anything

00:51:32.780 when we get stuff, well, that's not true because you need to fill out in the NYPD what's called a UF

00:51:37.100 250 form, a stop and frisk report. And on that stop and frisk report, you need to put down exactly

00:51:42.820 who the person is, where the person was, what they were doing and why you stopped. And it's also

00:51:50.020 really called SQF, stop question and frisk. And you need to explain that form is like, and I forget

00:51:58.220 now of a triplicate or a quadruplicate and it's digital now, but you need to explain why you did what

00:52:04.140 you did, why you stopped this person, why you decided to put your hands on them, what your

00:52:09.820 reasoning was for, for, for potential, a potential threat to the safety, to your safety or the public

00:52:15.380 safety as to why you patted them down. That has to go to a Sergeant. It goes to a Lieutenant. It goes

00:52:21.380 to the integrity control officers in the commands. There are many, many layers of oversight to stop

00:52:27.900 and frisk. It's not this random policy that left in the mainstream media wants you to believe that

00:52:33.080 the police can just roll up on anybody and stop them and frisk them and violate their civil rights.

00:52:37.120 No, never been that way. Never been that way. It is a highly effective tool. So now that we've

00:52:44.620 debunked the myths about stop and frisk, let's debunk the myth that cops didn't already do this.

00:52:49.640 You got to let police, police, they've got to be able to trust their instincts. We always knew who

00:52:55.500 the good people in the neighborhood were. It became evident after a while that I've got a group of guys on

00:53:01.360 this corner. And I've got a group of guys on this corner. I worked in a predominantly black and

00:53:05.460 Hispanic area. You've got young male blacks and Hispanics here and here. They both dress the same

00:53:10.200 way. Inner city kids look a little thuggy. Only I know this group of kids. Look, their kids grew up

00:53:14.880 on the street. They're tough kids. They're rough guys. They're not criminals. They know those drug

00:53:20.460 dealers. They're not going to give them up. They know those guys are doing stick ups. They're not going to

00:53:25.140 give them up. They're from the neighborhood, but they're not going that route. They go to school.

00:53:30.440 They keep their nose clean, but they're no punks. These guys get in their face. They're going to

00:53:35.900 throw down with them. So they don't get bothered. They're not victims. They're still tough guys.

00:53:41.040 They just saw too many guys. Maybe they're older brothers. Maybe they're older cousins.

00:53:44.740 Their friends go to jail and they say, you know what? That's not the route I want to go.

00:53:48.400 A lot of those guys, I know a lot of those guys. They went to college. They joined the military.

00:53:53.260 They got jobs working for the city out of high school. A bunch of them applied to the NYPD,

00:53:57.720 the fire department, department of sanitation. They wanted a better life. They did what they

00:54:02.680 could to get out of the neighborhood and get a better life. You got to know who those guys were

00:54:06.240 very, very quickly and you left them alone. And oftentimes they helped you out. Now, you know,

00:54:10.840 you couldn't push them too hard because you don't want them to be rats and get them in trouble with

00:54:15.880 the guys over there, the bad guys. But they weren't your problem. But we didn't roll up on them and stop

00:54:22.080 and frisk them. We would get out of the car. We'd BS with them and we'd leave them alone. They were

00:54:27.040 hanging out on the porch or the stoop on a summer day and they had an open beer. We're not going to

00:54:31.540 bother that because they're not making trouble. We're not getting called on them. They're just

00:54:37.560 guys out doing what guys do. They're having a beer. So what? They're sitting on the stoop. So what?

00:54:42.800 They don't park their car on the street talking to a girl. So what? Hey man, do me a favor. Move 0.99

00:54:46.940 the car. Just get around to it. All right. At least by the time I come around the block and they're

00:54:52.000 like, all right, thanks officer. And that was it. And we always knew to do that all the

00:54:57.040 the people who don't like the police are the criminals. Now, sure, some cops are heavy handed,

00:55:03.060 but I worked in a very busy area. We didn't have time to treat people. First of all, I would never

00:55:07.200 treat anybody unfairly or poorly. I took my job seriously as did most of the cops I worked with

00:55:12.600 because we knew who the bad people were and the good people were. So those guys who might have looked

00:55:16.620 like the bad guys, we got to know very quickly they weren't bad guys. We didn't harass them for no

00:55:22.080 reason. In fact, a lot of these guys were actually good guys. Funny story. One of the guys

00:55:26.700 we became friendly with. He would come by the precinct to drink with us afterward. He'd meet

00:55:29.700 us out of bars. He wound up going into the military, deployed to Iraq, came back safely,

00:55:35.380 large and a great career. Probably he did his 20 years in the military. You know, you get to know

00:55:40.120 the people in the neighborhood and become friendly with them. It doesn't matter what they wear,

00:55:42.840 how they dress, what they look like, how they speak. You get to learn who the good guys are,

00:55:46.120 who the bad guys are. And this is so nonsensical because what this does is it creates the message

00:55:54.120 that cops are heavy handed with everybody. And shame on Chief Monaghan, because he always had

00:56:01.500 a very good reputation. It's very, very disappointing that he's towing this politically

00:56:06.340 correct line, especially at a time when the NYPD and other large agencies are softening

00:56:12.040 the quality of their hires. They're not bringing on street cops with the ability to be hard.

00:56:19.140 It was a hard job. We were dealing with bad people. You need a certain toughness to you.

00:56:24.160 You need a certain edge to you. You need it. You can't go in thinking you're a social worker.

00:56:29.880 You're not. You're there to protect the innocent from the worst in society. You're the only wall

00:56:36.920 they've got, especially in a city like New York where they can't be armed.

00:56:40.220 This is really disappointing. And it scares me because I feel like coddling bad guys is really

00:56:48.080 the ultimate goal here because of Chief Monaghan, been around a long time. And he knows, he knows

00:56:55.840 that cops do their job right day in and day out. He knows they respect the public. He knows they

00:57:03.880 understand the difference in good people and bad people. And forcing this down their throats is

00:57:08.240 demoralizing. But even worse, it's sending a message to criminals that cops are going to

00:57:14.100 get that much softer. And like I always say, the worst thing for society is to put political

00:57:21.400 correctness ahead of public safety.

Rebel News Podcast - May 14, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 14⧸2018

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